Re: Trimming quoted lines (Was: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity)

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Michael Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:
>
> [172 lines of quoted text]
> [followed by 9 lines of new text]
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> I would ask people who quote prior messages in their replies to please
> trim the text that you're replying to to only the pertinent material.
> Usually, there's not often a need to quote anything other than the
> immediately preceding message, and usually, not all of that.
>
> We're starting to see messages like the above: 95% noise, 5% content.

I disagree. Albert Henderson, for one, has been catching only the ends of discussions and then seems lost.

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<mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> Received on Thu Aug 20 1998 - 14:23:01 GMT